Do you see this at your child's high school? [regarding GPA / SAT scatterplots of college admission / rejection]

[vwlizard]

@VirginiaBelle

Schools absolutely track admissions from various high schools and how they perform in college. I have had numerous UGA admissions officers tell me this. Georgia Tech even publishes this information on their website. For in-state schools, you can look it up by school and see number applied, number accepted, test scores, grades and first year GPA. You can also look up by state and find this information.

S23’s school did the reverse. They tracked their graduates and how they did in college so that not only could they recommend where the student would get in, but recommend a school they were likely to finish in 4 years and be happy.

[ucbalumnus]

@vwlizard

S23’s school did the reverse. They tracked their graduates and how they did in college so that not only could they recommend where the student would get in, but recommend a school they were likely to finish in 4 years and be happy.

Wouldn’t likelihood of graduating college be mostly related to the student’s college admission academic credentials and financial capability to afford the college?

For being happy, wouldn’t that be rather individualized based on student preferences?

[VirginiaBelle]

True but many high schools also provide a high school profile every year when they submit grades to colleges that shows where a student falls in a class, often by decile, based on GPA. So even if a college does not have data on the individual high school they may very well know where a kids grades fall in comparision to the rest of their high school class.

[vwlizard]

Not necessarily. Schools can take longer than 4 years if there is poor advising or trouble registering for class. And I think “happiness” is a great measure. They follow many data points such as access to counseling/accommodations, how well their graduates do, if they feel they’ve had good advisor, access to professors.